I found this blog today for this blog. How odd and fortuitous(I have been wanting to use that in a post forever).
Official Google Blog: Our Googley advice to students: Major in learning
So now let me share my story.
During the last year and a half I been on a huge huge journey to learn and master anything and everything that I could get my hands on. Some of my family and friends thought I was crazy and insisted I just focus on my job or simply get a better job.
Despite their best interest (because I knew that their intentions were good) I have continued on my long process.
PROCESS.
High school was highest level of my formal education. (I hate filling that out on applications knowing that when the person who reads them looks at them and sighs in frustration) I was always an above average student. From time to time I run into people I used to go to school with and they wonder why I am not a doctor or engineer. More on that in a future post.
One of the greatest things I have learned was that learning never stops and that you should continue to learn and develop yourself every single day. I can’t recall anyone ever telling me that when I was young.
To be truly prepared for the real world and what you have to deal with in a job is not anything I was taught in school. We are just given facts and told to remember them. We were not put into teams and instructed to work together to find a solution to a problem.
I now teach and train on Leadership. The topic of Leadership was never even covered in school unless I suppose we were talking about Abraham Lincoln (whom I just read was a tremendous leader with an uncanny ability to lead with his storytelling skills). How can one go into the workforce these days armed with a degree or two and not truly comprehend what leadership is and how to make it happen.
Right about now I feel like I have lost my point but still made one regardless.
Oh yes… just because you may have got an “education” does not mean you will never have to see the insides of a classroom again. Nor does it mean that you should never crack a book again. Although my friend was telling me recently that he read a survey that stated that 54% of people never read another book after they graduate high school.
Tags: process, education, development, leadership, management
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I use to hate reading, I mean really hate it! But now I am addicted, its like a drug, can’t get enough! I was once told that “The best way to keep a secret is to put it in a book, because no one reads”, I thought it was funny at first, then I made up my mind to find that Secret!!!